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you better believe they're all silk

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no idea when Repo Man came out. I can barely recall anything about it apart from Nicholas Cage robbing a convenience store of a package of Pampers (and even that may be a misremembering).

I only came to this thread to state that I must have at one time expressed something resembling enthusiasm for it because my wife has for decades accused it of being my favorite movie, or somehow standing for the essence of all I hold dear about the cinema. She has repeated this nostrum so many times that I now have an unmerited aversion for the thing. I doubt I shall ever hold a copy of it in my hand again, for fear my wife will see it and pounce on this fact as the vindication of her oft-stated opinion about my tastes.

So, despite my having no clear memory of it, this film and I share a deep intimate bond. Life is strange, but no stranger than my wife.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

ummmm.....Aimless?

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005K26C.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no idea when Repo Man came out. I can barely recall anything about it apart from Nicholas Cage robbing a convenience store of a package of Pampers (and even that may be a misremembering).

Uh dude, what Adam said, Raisin Arizona.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

You see? I remember nothing! Nothing! [/sergeant shultz]

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

well alright then

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

A Raising Arizona/Repo Man double feature woulda been my favoritest thing ever when I was 11

(Actually it is still my favoritest thing ever)

― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of disco violence, the good man pointed this out to me. Looks like the commentary tracks are the same as with the last edition, though there's some new extras?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I have the one in a metal box (with the CD). :-))))

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

sy richardson.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Sy Richardson is a goddamn treasure. And his performance in the rather notorious skin version of Cinderella is a clear case of someone transcending the material.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Whatever happened to Dick Rude?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe i used to like these guys

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Can you imagine I still haven't listened to the CD! I have had it for more than 4 yrs now!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

what the soundtrack? Jucy Bananas, fucks!

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I should really give it a listen.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Shoobidy doo wop, say what, yeah..."

― sengai, Friday, 6 January 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i installed 2 way mirrors at his pad in brentwood and he came to the door in a dress

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Awwww, that doesn't mean he was a homo, Miller. A lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck. I know I do. Don't you?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

the repo man sushi line is so classic

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

yes it is

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

there's room to move as fry cook

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck John Wayne! Tell us his name you little pussy!

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

JOHN WAYNE WAS A FAG...

THE HELL HE WAS!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

ha "motherfuck a john wayne"

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

"The more you drive, the dumber you get."

― no bones, Friday, 6 January 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Er.

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

"He was too, you boys."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Ever since JBR compared me to Parnell somewhere else, I feel like I should say "Not - at - alllll" as appropriate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"Miller, you do a lot of acid? Back in the 60's?"
"He has risen!"
"Fuck you, guy"
The repo wives!

This is one of those rare films, like Spinal Tap, where all the dialogue is funny in context.

"Hey kid, you wanna earn $10?"
"Fuck you, queer"

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

such a great film. i'm going to buy it on dvd one of these days... the commentary and interviews are priceless.

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

One of Rodney Bingenheimer's many films too. Like Rock and Roll High School.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i like how after the "plate of shrimp" speech there's a scene outside a restaurant and there's a sign in the window that faintly reads "plate of shrimp."

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Some of the best dialogue is least quoted -- it's all the flatly stated mundane/bizarre shit that the agents and guys in hazmat suits tell each other throughout the film. Admittedly a lot of it is buried a bit in the mix but when you start catching it more...

"Look."

"Booth's setting him on fire."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

"Come on you popsicles."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

There's also the whole 'without Repo Man no Pulp Fiction argument' that I've heard in various ways.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i need to watch pulp fiction again. i loved it when it first came out (i saw it at least twice in the theater and a couple more times on video/tv), but it became responsible for so many of the '90s worst cultural indulgences that i just couldn't even stand hearing its name anymore. it's been years since i last saw it.

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

"Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more."

"Couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom. Mm, mm, mmm."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd seen this movie at least a dozen times before I noticed that all the repo men were named after beer. Bud. Miller. Lite. Oly.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked being reminded in the commentary that they approached Gene Scott to play the preacher.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

During my fevered episodes this morning, I had a dream around 4 am that a really tall guy with long blond locks looking like he's in his late 20s, with three day face stubble wants me to join him for a meal at one of the casino/hotel restaurants. I'm not really interested in him, but he's so nice and friendly I go anyway.

I have no appetite or I already ate, so I said I'll just have this drink and keep you company while you eat. Next thing I know, we're sitting at a booth that looks like the Grande sumthinernuther at the Venetian in Vegas, and he has already finished eating because there's a PLATE OF SHRIMP that's half eaten in between stacks of other half-cleared plates at the table.

I awoke soon after and thought of Repo Man because of the plate of shrimp reference.

― Melinda Mess-injure (Melinda Mess-injure), Sunday, 11 February 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year!

-- J. Frank Parnell

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 11 February 2007 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked being reminded in the commentary that they approached Gene Scott to play the preacher.

sweet jesus, that would've been the greatest great thing ever to happen ever.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

xp: They ought to have them, too.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Love this movie. I especially loved the reaction of the last friend that I made watch it, who started out hesitant. "What is this? This is stupid. Why are you making me watch this?" And then around the time of the "I blame society" speech she said something like, "This is the best movie I've ever seen." Cut to me, with a smirk of self-satisfaction on my face.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

sweet jesus, that would've been the greatest great thing ever to happen ever.

This is only slightly topped by the fact that they had a chance to talk to Muhammad Ali and his people about having him appear at the end of the film with the preacher and rabbis and the like, in order to show that not even Muhammad Ali could approach the car!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

haha... okay, must buy the dvd.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

"Hey, what the fuck are you doing with our car?"

"Your car? Are you sure? This looks like my car. Are there pecan pies in the back?"

"Not any more. We ate them."

― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link

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